{"id":29829,"date":"2022-04-11T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shani-ben-david-first-woman-to-be-appointed-captain-in-the-israeli-merchant-marine\/29829\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:38:59","slug":"shani-ben-david-first-woman-to-be-appointed-captain-in-the-israeli-merchant-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shani-ben-david-first-woman-to-be-appointed-captain-in-the-israeli-merchant-marine\/29829\/","title":{"rendered":"Shani Ben-David: First Woman to be appointed Captain in the Israeli Merchant Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Shani Ben-David, 39, was appointed to the position of Captain, significant as she is the first woman to be appointed captain in the Israeli Merchant Marine. In a traditional ceremony held at the company&#8217;s headquarters in Haifa, ZIM President &amp; CEO, Eli Glickman, granted her the official appointment. She will take command of the container ship ZIM Shekou at the beginning of May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The historic appointment of Shani Ben-David, as the first woman Captain in our fleet, is exciting and inspiring,&#8221; said Glickman. &#8220;Shani broke the glass ceiling, and proved once again that women can reach any summit. She will not only fulfill a personal dream but will set a living example for additional women.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib\" style=\"width: 913px; width: 913px; width: 913px;\"><span class=\"fr-img-wrap\"><span class=\"fr-inner\">L to R: Mali Elimelech, Shani&#8217;s mother; Captain Shani Ben David; ZIM CEO Eli Glickman; and ZIM COO David Arbel. Photo courtesy ZIM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shani Ben-David, 39, was appointed to the position of Captain, significant as she is the first woman to be appointed captain in the Israeli Merchant Marine. In a traditional ceremony held at the company&#8217;s headquarters in Haifa, ZIM President &amp; CEO, Eli Glickman, granted her the official appointment. She will take command of the container &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}